55p for a second class stamp?

[albaqwerty]

maybe a quid for first class?

sounds fair enought to me

Sorry, can't provde a link, but it was mentioned on Beeb news this morning

[venator]

I bought 200 1st and 2nd before they went up last time, and made an 11% profit in a week. I still have a lot left, as I use the online print your own service.

It looks like I'm going to make some more now - one investment that's going up!

[rowanwitch]

Thanks for the heads up use a lot for sending in crossword entries if all the Q and P people did this it would really annoy the post office

[albaqwerty]

My OH received a letter from the NHS yesterday, franked at 39p with a FIRST CLASS mark on it. Weird.
Do the NHS get better rates? Maybe a mis-print

The stamps which have no value printed on them must surely still be treated as either first or second class?

[emmie]

that quite honestly is expensive, considering that the mail service is so poor.

[albaqwerty]

em I wouldn't be a postie for all the tea in China.

Eddie, I wish I could type the words better to express my thoughts :)
(ps alba is fine)

[douglas9401]

You know what would be great? If Royal Mail just got on with their job, delivering stuff. When you think back to what could be done years ago it's almost enough to make you weep with frustration.

[emmie]

Alba, not blaming the postie, well sometimes when they can't read, sorry had that too many times now, where letters for next door come to us, and visa versa. But the management of a once proud organisation. I think our postal service more than second rate.

[albaqwerty]

Dougleas, yep, 2 deliveries a day and lots of collections from post-boxes, All that before computerisation and post codes.
Technology is a wonderful thing.

[dzug2]

<<My OH received a letter from the NHS yesterday, franked at 39p with a FIRST CLASS mark on it. Weird.
Do the NHS get better rates? Maybe a mis-print >>

Using a franking machine does give cheaper rates, yes - so that rate is right

[albaqwerty]

thanks dzug

I've received letters marked to 10L at the other end of my village. I do not live in a proprty which could even be considered as 10L. I think that postie was hungover

[Old_Geezer]

The idea of 2 classes of post is ridiculous, should be a first class service for all.

I have no idea what it costs to deliver the average piece of mail but i'd rather have a price that reflected the cost and a decent servce than have things done on the cheap and a dodgy service.

Of course while commercial concerns have cherry picked the profitable parts leaving the PO to compete with e-mail it's adifficult situation.

[rov1100]

Thank goodness for E-mail!

[DrFilth]

and how it use to be

http://s655.photobuck...iew¤t=IMG-6.jpg

[vulcan]

As DrFilth shows it used to be so different. When the postal service was at it's best and post cards at their height of popularity, cards were sent in the morning to arrange a meeting that evening, nearly as good as e mails.

[DrFilth]

report about this in the telegraph

http://www.telegraph....e-by-50-per-cent.html